The harvest garden is bursting with delicious vegetables, the pumpkins are decorated and lit, and the mice have their costumes ready. Everyone is looking forward to the annual Halloween-night feast. Scary Cat wasn’t invited to the party, but he seems to think he’s coming anyway. Time for a clever mouse-style surprise to outsmart that cat!
Young readers are sure to love this board book edition of this playful, visually stunning story. Adults will love the clever collages that were a hallmark of Lois Ehlert's dynamic art style.
Lois Ehlert (1934-2021) was an American author and illustrator of children's books, most having to do with her love of nature. Ehlert won the Caldecott Honor for Color Zoo in 1990. Some of her other popular works include Chicka Chicka Boom Boom, Cuckoo/Cucú: A Mexican Folktale/Un cuento folklórico Mexicano and Leaf Man. She also won a Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year for Snowballs, Booklist Editors' Choice for Cuckoo/Cucú: A Mexican Folktale/Un cuento folklórico Mexicano, the IRA Teachers' Choice and NCTE Notable Children's Trade Book in the Language Arts for Feathers for Lunch, and received the American Library Association Notable Children's Book and the Boston Globe Horn Book Award for Chicka Chicka Boom Boom. She was a lifelong Wisconsin resident and lived in Milwaukee until her death in 2021.
